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BOSTON CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY Volume 17, No. 4, June/August 2010 newsletter Coming Events ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ June 9 – 13, 2010 Boston GuitarFest BCGS ARTIST SERIES NEC, Boston, Events and information at www.bostonguitarfest.org 2010-2011 June 22 – 27, 2010 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ 2010 GFA Convention, Austin, TX The international classical guitar community's premier event will be held in bustling, historic Paul Galbraith Austin, Texas. This year's host is the Austin October 2, 2010 at 8 p.m. Classical Guitar Society, led by Matthew Hinsley. Jason Vieaux Sat, June 26, 2010, 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. BCGS Performance Party November 6, 2010 at 8 p.m. 100 State St # 6, Newburyport, MA 01950 Jul 7 – 11, 2010 Ana Vidovic New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes February 25th, 2011 at 8 p.m. Mannes School of Music, NY 10th New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes The Cutting Edge: New Visions in the Art of Guitar All concerts will take place at First Lutheran Church in Boston. Read more and watch videos at See the Calendar Section for more details our website, www.bostonguitar.org. Contents Purchase a Season Pass for $99 Letter to Members................................3 BCGS Artist Series..............................4 or 2 for $160!! Calendar ............................................5 Go to bostonguitar.org now and purchase a Classifieds ..........................................5 season pass for next year and save much more when you buy an extra pass for a Summer love ......................................6 member of your family or a non-BCGS member friend. Offer includes: Galbraith, Luthier’s Corner..................................7 Vieaux, Vidovic concerts and Festival 21; does not include our annual fund-raiser concert TBA. BCGS Staff Festival 21, April 16, 2011 Director Daniel Acsadi [email protected] Thanks to all who made this year’s Festival 21 better Thuy Wagner than ever! Special thanks go to our sponsors Augustine, Treasurer [email protected] D’Addario and NEFA as well as those members who Festival 21 Director contributed to the commission fund: Sheridan Kassirer, Frank [email protected] Michael Hurley, Brian Drayton, Arthur Ness, Robert Newsletter Margo and Robert Jackson. Frank Wallace, [email protected] Go to: www.youtube.com/ user/frankwallacecomposer George Ward, [email protected] to see a summary of this year’s events as well a discus- Will Riley, [email protected]. sion of Festival 21’s newly commissioned piece, “So Acting Membership Director the Poet will be Heard” by José Lezcano, a smash hit Daniel Acsadi [email protected] at the Festival. Mark your calendars for April 16, 2011 Performance Party Coordinator to hear more exciting new music and to participate in Oscar Azaret [email protected] the next new orchestra piece. Grammy award winner AndrewAndrew YorkYork Teams up with the La Bella family. ndrew York is one of A today's most visible and innovative classical guitar composers, winning a GRAMMY with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet during their sixteen year partnership. Andrew’s discography includes “California Breeze,” a new recording for Sony Japan, three solo CD's for the GSP label, ten CD’s with the LAGQ on Delos, Sony and Telarc labels, as well as inclusion on Rhino Records “Legends of Guitar” and numerous other compilations. For the last decade, Andrew’s concert touring schedule has spanned more than thirty countries. Recent concerts include Bogotá Colombia, Ankara Turkey and Andrew’s eleventh tour of Japan. La Bella strings is very happy to welcome such an innovative composer and player to their family. 256 Broadway • Newburgh, NY 12550 • (845) 562-4400 • Fax (845) 562-4491 • www.labella.com www.bostonguitar.org BCGS Newsletter June/August 2010 Letter to Members Dear Members, The BCGS 2010-11 season is already set, so mark your We have reached the calendars! The lineup of Paul Galbraith, Jason Vieaux, conclusion of a very Ana Vidovic, and Festival 21 will be one of the premier successful 2009-10 series in the United States. Look further in this newsletter season. April’s Festival to read more about our featured artists. 21 was a big hit thanks to Many thanks go out to our supporters, sponsors, volun- not only the amazing teers, and Board of Directors for everything they have performances by Gyan accomplished over the past season. It would not have been Riley, the Chroma Duo, possible without your contributions. The BCGS welcomes Latin Landscapes Trio, your ideas, suggestions, and financial help throughout the Andrew McKenna Lee and the participants of the upcoming months in order to better serve you. Members’ Concert, but by the debut of the BCGS Community Guitar Orchestra. I was delighted to witness Warm regards such a compelling concert from a brand new member- based ensemble. The interactivity and high participation rates of this action-packed day point forward to a great new direction for the Society. Thanks to José Lezcano and , Scott Borg for leading the group in performance and rehearsal. I am especially grateful to Frank Wallace for Daniel Acsadi, Director months of hard work leading up to a phenomenal day of guitar, fun, and friends. Looking back on the season’s other events, we were blessed with absolutely first-rate performances. The Cavatina Duo’s virtuosity and passion attested to their status as one of the leading flute-guitar duos in the world. Gabriel Bianco showed us why young French guitarists are the talk of the international guitar community. Quarteto Vivace Brasil brought their love of Brazilian music and a unique ensemble sound to Copley Square. The society was honored to have Eliot Fisk appear at our Benefit Concert along with Zaira Meneses, Jerome Mouffe, and Maarten Stragier. As you begin to make summer plans, make sure to check out Eliot Fisk’s Boston GuitarFest, with the 2010 theme America, America. The festival will present a dizzying array of concerts, workshops, masterclasses, by a lineup that features Jorge Caballero (who gave a great BCGS concert a few years back), Ben Verdery, Michael Chapdelaine, David Starobin, Franz Halasz, Zaira Meneses, and Eliot with world-famous clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. For more information, please go to www.bostonguitarfest.org. 3 June/August 2010 BCGS Newsletter Volume 17, Number 4 Galbraith, Vidovic, and Vieaux head- Summer Love line 2010-11 BCGS Artist Series by Donna Ricci Paul Galbraith One night my friend Pam and I were talking about love and commitment. She said, “You can have love without commit- The BCGS welcomes Paul Galbraith to kick off the 2010-11 ment and you can have commitment without love, but when Artist Series on October 2nd at 8 pm. A native of Scotland and you have the two together, you’ve found that magical combina- currently residing in Brazil, Paul Galbraith is one of the most tion that comprises true and lasting love.” I thought about this unique guitarists on the international concert scene. He is the statement in the context of my commitment to guitar playing. co-developer of the Brahms guitar, an 8-string instrument that We often judge the quality of our work by technique, emotional uses a higher and a lower string to extend its range. Further- expression and the ability to execute it with confidence. We more, it is played in a cello-like posture, complete with an look to our teachers, colleagues and audience to help us define endpin that connects to a resonator box. The posture, in turn, our talent and reinforce our commitment. While these experi- allows for a freer movement of the arms and prevents the ences inspire our practice, the deeper connections often are player’s body from dampening the vibrations of the instrument. made through small, serendipitous moments that might slip by Paul’s recordings have garnered much praise, especially his us if we are not listening. Last summer, three of these moments, album of French impressionist works and his interpretation of occurred — a young woman turned a coffee shop floor into a Johann Sebastian Bach’s Violin Sonatas & Partitas and his Broadway stage; a couple made a lifelong commitment on a Lute Suites. perfect summer day; and a look in my teacher’s eyes told me I Jason Vieaux had advanced to another level. The juxtaposition of these three A frequent performer across the United States and the winner events crystallized my love and commitment to my art. Here’s of the Guitar Foundation of America competition at only age what happened. nineteen, Jason Vieaux needs little introduction. Gramophone When I first began playing out at the Nutcracker Bakery in magazine called him “among the elite of today’s classical gui- Newburyport, I played into the early evening on Fridays. At tarists.” Jason’s recent recording of Bach’s lute works rose to this time, one of the clerks was a high school senior named number 13 on the Billboard Classical Charts and his arrange- Emily. Emily was a delightful young woman who completed ment of jazz great Paul Metheny’s works have pushed guitar her tasks with efficiency and grace. At times, when no one was repertoire in a fascinating new direction. I was recently struck demanding her attention, I would notice her watching me play. by Jason’s exciting performance of Leo Brouwer’s El She seemed to connect with the music with an innate sense of Decameron Negro (accessible on Youtube). On top of his usual knowing. flawless technique, the listener is immediately taken by his exquisite phrasing and careful attention to articulation, setting By 6:00 p.m. there were long periods when no one entered the Jason’s version apart from other interpreters of this popular shop. It was then that Emily would begin her clean-up.